SEN3ITIVS II OUT US JAMAICENS'rS. i 



12. LINEATA. LINEAR. 



Leaflets five | i,vhai long, pubescent beneath, equal-j an obsolete gland 



beneath the lowest ; peduncles one-flowered. 



13 SENNA. 



Senna Ttalica seu foliis obtusis. Sloane, v. 2, p. 47. 



Leaflets fjur to six pairs, sub-ovate, petioles without gland,. 



This is the plant which produces the leaves con nonly known in medicine by the 

 name of senna. Swartz found it on the coast of this island, of which, however, it is 

 i i a native, although Ion itroduced, and it is \ ' ,>* is 



ly a variety. Swartz cle f< v, branch I, i ven, with 



sub-divided branches ; leaves composed of five, six, pairs of leaflets ; common 



petioles alternate, round, thickened at the base ; leaflets opposite, oblong, rounded 

 atthetip, where there isavery short bristle, :ous, on very snort petio- 



lules; stipules at the base of t nutate. !' ter- 



minating, erect, many-l vers on les, 1 down, p 



yellow; calyciue leaflets lanceolate ; petals convex, patulous ; three f 

 four middle smaller, three * . of the 



middle ones small, ofth , styleincu i , gma 



acute; legume shaped like the stomach, pa li 



t ) : lower Tiate; ; eight, npres sect Ail the ,. 



are purgal h : leaves, bruised ail' the skin, are I . >r cutaneo is 



complaiuts. Tiiis plant, which grew on t le sea, was employed by Dr. 



Wright as a cathai 'i . 



See (Cane-piece Sensitive, Cassia tree, Horse-cassia, Ringworm-siiri 



and S: inking Weed. 



NSITIVE PLANTS. MIMOSA. 



Cfc-. 23, or. 1. Polj/gamia moneccia. NaT. or. Lome ce<e. 



Gev. char See Cacoons, p. 137. Besides the species of this genus referred to un- 

 der E igli i, the following are also natives of Jamaica : 



1. VIVA. I l\ ELY. 



Mimosa herhacea, von spines.:, tni-nima, repens. Sloane, v. 2, p. 58,. 

 t. isc, f. 7. Minima herbaeea, vin tripoliearis; capsulismono&pevn 

 viifais hirsu'tis. Browne, p. 254-. M. 1 ;. 



Unarmed, leaves conjugate pinnate, in most pLnnas smaller. 



This has trailing; herbaceous stalks, putting out roots at every joint, and spreading 

 to a const lerable distance. The leaflets are narrow an:! the petioles short and smooth. 

 Flowers axillary on naked peduncles, about an inch in length ; "they are of a pale yel- 

 lowish colour, and collected into small globular heads.^ legumes short, flat, jointed, 

 cantaining three or f >ur compressed roundish seeds. Martyn. The smallest creeping 

 s ivitive ii frequent in many of die pasturesin Jamaica, especially those situated at the 

 'jo.tsof the mountains in Sixteen-mile-walk and St Thomas in the East It grows in 



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